Pint-sized scientists help save an endangered crustacean; aquaponics proves a blooming success in a harsh outback climate; we taste test beef in the lead-up to the EKKA; and saddle up for the Halls Creek campdraft.

We visit the Strelley community school in the Pilbara; cross the ditch to New Zealand to visit a tea plantation; go behind the restricted access doors at a quarantine facility; and meet Holly the working dog.

Eight years after the collapse of managed investment schemes in timber, fruit and other projects, attention is again focused on the financial advisers who recruited investors. Sarina Locke investigates.

This week we're cruising for crocodiles on the Katherine River; meet a woman foraging for rainforest seeds; go preg testing with a young Brazilian vet; and join a group of indigenous trainees on a pastoral skills course .

The Nyabing community is growing crops to buy and do up their local pub; we tour a Kangaroo Island free range egg farm; visit a school garden scheme battling the drought in Queensland; and go to an auctioneers' school.